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		andix 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) What we use nowadays is actually ECMAScript and not JavaScript. We just call it JavaScript.

muvlon 3 days ago [–]

If enough people call it JavaScript, it is JavaScript. Yes really. Even in a legal sense (and deno are arguing this is already the case).

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